The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-15
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THE TWO plrrspuRau MEN
Arrested as Counterfeiters Prove AIIbl.
and arc Given Their Liberty-Two
Men sun Positive Tint Nc.
Cam Ia The One Wanted.

US Commissioner Forbea gavs McUsra.
Frank McCann and james McUasty, the
two Pittsburghers who were SO unlortu.
nate as TO be arrested here on suspicion OF
passing counterfeit money, hearing the
first thing yesterday morning. They
proved very conclusively that they were
not In the city at tho timo tho queer
stud was pared over to tho North Main
street saloonists and grccsrymen who
we're bit. The alibts they proved wore 80
strong that Commissioner Foibsa had no
heBitancy In releasing them, even though
two men BworO positively that McCann
was tho man who had vlctimizsd Thorn.
Meesrs. NcCann and McCarty were
represented by lawyers Dovener and FL.
son, aud they wers accompanied to the
Commissioners office by tho company O!
friends and witnesses that had como down
from Pittsburgh tho night beloro-with
the avowed intention Of standing
the State on end unless their
two friends were reea1sd. In add.
ton, largo number Of North Wheel.
iugites were present and the Commission.
ers Office and tho corridor outside were
packed full Of people.
John Koch. o butcher could moi identity
either McCann or McCarty az the men
wanted. John Costello, Baloonist, said
McCannlresembled the man In his place.
William Hatrell, saloonist, swore posi.
lively that Mccain was the man who
passed. money on him and Fred Holman
stuck to his assertion that McOanu Was
the man. Others said there was no rcsem-
b!ance 10 be found In either Mccain or
McCarty to tho two wanted.
Then the Pittsburgh wi.nesses were in.
troduced; there wac the barber who ebay.
ed McCann. the proprietor Of the place, an
attache Of the restaurant where he alto his
supper, the man who sold cigars to the
two, men who had talked with them,
and taken all in all thore waa
enough testimony Of good reliable
nature to prove alibis ten times over. II IL
clearly most peculiar caao OF miotaken
identity. Commissioner Forbes referred
To 1t as such in discharging the two men
at the game time he regretted that such Q
lamentsbls mistake had occurred, Har.
rell and Hoffman, pereiesed In identifying
McCann SIS the man that was in theil
places. ~
| The two suspects" lief. for home in the
afternoon, accompanied by their friends.
Before leaving they exonoratcd tho police
who arrested them from any wrong in
tho matter, and desired 70 ex.
pres, their thanks to tho Wheeling
men who tiied to make things as pleasant
as possible for them, notably Henry @.
Meyer, the Parker Bros. and the z ,rni!z
Bros, local produce dealers, who we're on
hand to do whatever they could.
McSwesney the Government detective,
who came down to help his friends and
look out for the "shavers" who sre sue.
pected Of being the same who havs been
flooding Pittsburgh was present at the
hesringlud afterwards went!oSteubenville
atnoon to take look at the two crooks ar.
rested there the night before. He took
with him young man Of North Wheel.
ing, who was positivo he could identify
the two men wanted. "a
There was Pinkerton man in toSn
Thursday night aud he, too, vas on the
lookout for the paasers OF counter
teit money who are working in
this section. He he'd photograph oil
one Of them and it is evidently photo.
graph Of the man for whom McCaun was
arrested, as it is almost a perfect likeness
OF him. sasI